The Russellville Democrat., 1887-05-25
state News.


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by lamplight at Fort Smith.
| Hackett City is shipping 100 tons
OF coal per day to St Louis.
Gambling aud liquor selling are
things OF the past at Hot Springs.
Camden has subscribed $4,000
for building cotton compress.
Little Rock is trying TO suppress
the town COW aud the town dog.
Property in Helena has advanced
25 per cent. in the last 80 days.
Fl. Smiths school fund, in cash
and land, amounts to 81, 100000.
Considerable cotton has been
plowed up and replanted in the
State.
w. J. Mayor, Of Indian Bay, has
planted 200 acres in castor beans.
! r. McClintock, of DeVal's Bluff,
manufactures brooms on his farm.
All trains that enter Little Rock
stop and start from the union depot.
There are now about 5000 visitors
at Hot Springs, the end Of the season.
Dan Rice, the old circus clown,
owns 1000 acres Of land in Lincoln
county.
| An athletic association has been
organized at Pine Bluff, $4,000 cap
ital.
The late revival at Prescott re-
suited in 80 additions to the Chris
tian church.
Some 10000 acres of pine lands
IN Clark and Pike counties are Of
fered for sale.
Two boat loads of zinc ore were
shipped from Batesville to St. Louis
last week.
Major Penn, the Texas evangelist,
has made 90.odd conversions in Lit.
tie Rock.
Pine Bluffs police department is
self supporting-fines amounting to
about 5000 month.
A Chinese opium den was raided
at Texarkana last week and nine
smokers, white men, captured.
A Washington county distillery
brought $4,000 at public sale last
week, said to be dirt cheap.
The shipment Of trawberries from
the State is not so large as hereto
fore, but better prices are realized.
A company has bought $4,000
acres of land in Boone, Baxter and
Union counties, rich in zinc and cop
per ores.
Contract has been let for building
. 15-mile extension of the Frisco
railroad from Hackett City toward
Little Rock.
The Frisco railroad has been com
pleted through from Fit. Smith to
Paris, Texas, and regular train serv
i've put on.
Fl. Smith has been selected as gen
eral headquarters for the Southern
division of the Frisco railroad.
Preparations are being made for
building the dormitories at the In
dustrlal University ordered by the
Legislature.
There are 20 grain distilleries in
Arkansas, nine of which we're IN OPP
Grafton last month aad made 4,634
gallons of spirits.
The tank of the Newport water
works burst the other day, destroy.
ing the engine house and dong other
damage, all amounting to $4,000.
The Arkansas Insurance Company,
organized by some of the best and
strongest capitalists of Little Rock,
will commence business on July 1st.
A TOO pound specimen OF iron ore,
"a per cent. OF pig iron, is
exhibited at Little Rock. 1t was
taken from the iron fields three miles
from the city.
There are nine cotton seed oil mills
in the State, one each at Brinkley,
Newport, Pine Bluff, Arkansas City
and Texarkana and two each at Hell.
ena and Little Rock.
The Gate City Guards. of Texar.
kama, company of State militia,
have sued the Iron Mountain rail
road for $500 for public services
rendered during the strike last year.
The Iron Mountain railroad land
office sold 4,l55 acres of land in
April, go acres being the average to
each purchaser. The office receipts
from all sources were $l9,S67.29.
j. +. Shelton, clerk in the Pine
Bluff post office, rihed registered
package Of 1882 addressed to Geo.
Taylor q Co., ST. Louis, was arrested
but made daring escape from the
Capital Hotel at Little Rock.